Name: Innovations of War: The Evolution of Tactical Military Weapons
Uploaded: 2022-05-05T10:35:46.000Z
Description: An examination of the ways the U.S. Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries changed the concept of war and the weapons that could be created for it.

An examination of the ways the U.S. Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries changed the concept of war and the weapons that could be created for it.

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The three most important, game-changing technologies of the American Civil War were the railroad, the use of the telegraph, and the development of the mini-bullet and the rifled musket.

Rails & Rams

The timing of the Civil War was fortuitous for the makers of weapons, but for the men who had to use and suffer by those arms it was a different story since only then was the nation technologically ready for a civil war.

Hot Air & Hot Lead

Stealth, deception and hoax were employed alongside conventional military confrontation, and on occasion the Army's prerogatives became interchangeable with the Navy's.

Rams & Rivers

A new age in warfare arrived on the night of September 6, 1776, when a group of men on the shore of New York Harbor launched the first submarine used in battle so that they might deploy an underwater bomb.

Steel Sharks

Although some machine gun-like traits existed in weapons as early as the 16th century, it was not until the mid-19th century that successful machine gun designs came into existence.

Full Auto

By the 16th century, firearms replaced bows as their potential was grasped and Edward Gibbon made the claim that gunpowder effected a new revolution in the art of war and the history of mankind.

This is My Rifle

It was inevitable that rockets, first invented by the Chinese more than a thousand years ago as a byproduct of inventing gunpowder, would eventually take on militaristic applications.

Vengeance Weapon

The beginning of the 20th century saw the pioneers of vertical flight resolving many of the problems that kept their crafts from getting off the ground.

Vertical Flight

Cannons, initially prized for their ability to destroy stone walls and thereby end sieges, are believed by many to have heralded the true end of the Middle Ages.

Mobile Artillery

No single piece of hardware dominates modern land warfare like the tank. Heavily armored, possessing devastating fire power, and highly mobile over broken terrain, it enables commanders to exploit even the smallest enemy weakness.

Armour Knights

Science and the military traditionally have cooperated only in wartime when money and resources will pour into research that might have military significance, but even then scientific knowledge becomes a closely held secret.

Top Secret

The U.S. Navy often acts as a deterrent for dictators and others simply by floating warships in international waters.

Innovations of War: The Evolution of Tactical Military Weapons

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